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Author(s): Henrik Christoffersen, Michelle Beyeler, Reiner Eichenberger, Peter Nannestad, Martin Paldam (auth.)

ISBN(s): 9783642372377, 9783642372384, 3642372376, 3642372384

Edition: 1

File Details: PDF, 5.25 MB

Year: 2014

Language: English

SKU: EB-4606804 Categories: Politics & Philosophy, Society Tags: Christoffersen, Comparative, Denmark, Society

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Author: Henrik Christoffersen (Author), Michelle Beyeler (Author), Reiner Eichenberger (Author), Peter Nannestad (Author), & 1 more

Denmark and Switzerland are small and successful countries with exceptionally content populations. However, they have very different political institutions and economic models. They have followed the general tendency in the West toward economic convergence, but both countries have managed to stay on top. They both have a strong liberal tradition, but otherwise their economic strategies are a welfare state model for Denmark and a safe haven model for Switzerland. The Danish welfare state is tax-based, while the expenditures for social welfare are insurance-based in Switzerland. The political institutions are a multiparty unicameral system in Denmark, and a permanent coalition system with many referenda and strong local government in Switzerland. Both approaches have managed to ensure smoothly working political power-sharing and economic systems that allocate resources in a fairly efficient way. To date, they have also managed to adapt the economies to changes in the external environment with a combination of stability and flexibility.

Table of contents:

1. Two Good Societies: Switzerland and Denmark

1. The Quality of Life in Two Different Good Societies: Denmark and Switzerland

2. Two Wealthy Economies and Their Development

3. Are the Standards of Living Similar or Dissimilar? An Extended Comparison

4. Happiness in Denmark and Switzerland

2. Two Models of Good Societies

5. Two Stylized Models

6. Political Institutions and Politics

7. Civil Society: Associational Involvement, Norms and Values

8. Two Variants of the Welfare State

9. Immigration